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Oct. 18, 1927.

F. MGF.` BRINCKERHOFF SAFETY DEVIE FOR ARTICULATED CARS 2 'sheets-snee: 1

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. WMMHMMMMHHHHNA |11 WITNESS 1,645,983 Oct. 18, 1927- Fe MCF, BmNcKERHor-'F SAFETY DEVICE FOR ARTICULATED CARS 'lew March 2l, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR s s E N n w iatemted Unt. l?, 1927.

TATES FRNCIS. flil'lii@RERHOFF 31? SUFFERN, NEN YRK. SSGNOR TO PRESSED JERSEY.

RNNSYLVANA, A. CORPORATION 0F NEW FETY BEVCE FOR. .AILTXCULATEE CAM,

Application filed March 21, 192% This invention relates io transportation cnrs, particularly railway transportation cars of the articulated :mit ype in which ihe ad jacent, ends?. of two of the bodies of file :':ax' suppored upon one 'Muck and has? for :an olV vf :he prvibion of munirsi for prevent.- ingf u-oidenfai excessive movement o; om: of nid bodies. roiative to the ohiir and im* gire venting aooidentai excessive iifgisifzud move :nent of one of said ends rela! iw to the other and to the ruck and wiii ihn@ imei :wcidoniai separation of said linda u: tend to maintain iiorle of mid mida; in mi ,heated relation 'with tu@ truuk.

, Another object of the im'enfion is io im vide moans secured to one ifody of :in Mieuiated car unit adaped io moperzii fidi mi adjacent body of the im' :mit to prevent, :if:- cidentai Separation of seid iseuies.

A fuiher object of the inveiriffn is in movida ioni) means adiiped ngi-reuewifii tw@ miao/ent bodieal of 2.7 @iiiwiiaiefl m' mi. iicoidei'imi fr;

1r imi? nico i'eoieneo ehariiem i ii ifilfr. 1; a )flan viewA o way :uiicumted @um ion n, portion of iin amil-y' to more '-iemiy dii. fion; liig'" 2 is ii Fig. 3 is fi :1 on he line i pino. 'iew of a, i ii'tlouiei Cal' embodymilfzz, L, the invention, and Fig. 5 is v n of the sarna taken on the line 5mi' l 1.

Referring now in delai! in lh@ dm' Y the reference character 1 indicated one oi i end oriions of one body of a railway ni'iiy u f late (w: wif `1nd indicates one of the end portions i adjmifnt'; body of the ear unit.rk it being uiislerstood 'that the car uni'i may compi'ise two o1' any other desiired nuiuiiei' of bodies, and that the conneciion beiween any two adjacent bodies is rsiihb'iia'ntiaily the same as hereinafter fully deseribed De pending downwardly from the end portion i is a bearing member 3 having a hearing sul face 4 in the shape of a porton of i1 spherm and depending downwardly from die en ion 2 (if the adjacent body there i.-; sim lar member 3. The :surfaees ifing broken i railway F4111 0f Serial No. 3.885.

eooperatd with a bearing surface 5 formed on a beimng member 6 on an adjacent truck i'. 'ihese hearing members forming a connection between the bodies and txi'uck are deoribed in detail in my pending applica- Lion for li, Patent, Serial No. 176,864, filedn Mardi 2l. M2?, .for center bearing con iiwion for drtiifuiaied cnrs.

Around the outer portion oi' the bearing Surface i3, the 'hearing member fi hun` an upii'nz'dii' extending nngu. 8 which adapted vto he engaged by the hearing portions 3 and by such engagenueu, under normal conditions, the bodies: im: heid :againt excessive imiggilludinai oiiiieivi5e movement. In case v (i milio. ,in or deiuiilment the iange 8 may ivcozno broken so hat one ear body may become epm-:Med fiom, (he adjacent body, 0i one or both 'nodi may become separated from this ti'uf'i; und from ozu/h oiher and to pi'ei'em this` l ifi-ovuli :i ioop 9 which cooperated iiilh tw :uljwoent bodies of the car unit', in susi; :i inzuieei' ihu the bodies will (um. he iwiiiitwi i, i whim repainted from o luge; ll, on he end portion 2 of one of the mi." bodies. listin-eu its mdf; this loop www around the heaving pm'iions 3 of iioth cuis :ind whim. on horim'inmi lugs; i2 formed on n, survol web or mi? i3 iii'epmiding down- .izii'diy from lli-e siii-fi 'pox-lion of the other im imiy. The iniiie i() for :lio greater por i :if ii'f; ioizgfh is; om; mi in :i tube 14 i 'uiw-:i sind i.; uhssintially vonmrni with the anni of he #top 13. This iizln; is rigid lungh m that he loop will ,noi Chango it alpe undo? oiiiiuzii'y service conitiiiioim 'lm-ie i11- :i ,@iifh Marani-e pra fd helivoen he iooii il and the slop 13 which is im' the piumfie of permitting the bodies, io iwi ii'ihoul, any binding action taking piave between ling loop und the stop it will he holed ihm, under ordinary serv iw azoz'uiitionf-z the loop Si s on the lugs 12 und i. @spaced away from the .map ifi, thu, reiaiiiie iuowinmi between the loop und the img 'b' 'iii is iifi'uiittxffi. iliouirl u uur quipped .iith ilu? inveniofi l@ flemiiwl the omer iufm-if' poitiom oi" iluy iwi :uiiuflm bodies mi iiwfun'w ,e'iriiulff'i from lim trank heur 'zmfmiwiz init, tine iwli wil' not imi-lue ei'fii'i'i imm uw ,i mimi im; 2in: lool; il 

